Global 4
Abraham Campos, Elishia Davis, Jessica Gallego, Ahmed K, Armando Martinez,Ana Bajlo
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IS THERE EQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN?


DO STANDARDS OF BEAUTY KEEP WOMEN WEAK?

Who determines standards of beauty and how does it affect us?

What might foot binding symbolize?

Throughout our time with Lisa in our Global Lab class, we spoke about many different topics. Out of the many topics we discussed, we mainly focused on the topic of women and the ideal concept of beauty throughout history. We spoke about the pain and suffering that women experienced in order to live up to the standards of beauty that the society holds against them, a society that has been known to be male-dominated for generations.

Examples of what we would consider Perverse/Extreme Standards of Beauty
- Foot Binding
- Corsets
- Piercings
- Scars
- African Traditional Stretching of the Skin
- Using Rings to enhance neck length
neck stretching
neck stretching

Foot Binding in China, Standards of Beauty:Women are foot binded in China
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this is an example of what a corset does to a woman's internal organs.



With the Mursi in the south of Ethiopia durchstochene or cut and particularly far stretched Piercings in the lips and Ohrläppchen belong to the ideal of beauty. The larger the plate is, the more reputation applies for the woman.

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Corrupted History by Elishia


History is misery

time to get rid of thee

oh wait, I had what we call an epiphany

women are a part of me so treat them equally

how life should it be

women are a part of me

witness symmetry

so treat them equally

don't treat them differently

mother to the soldier

prize to the eyes of the beholder

not to appropriate not to discriminate

set aside your ego

we are one people

without women we can't live

even though we once did

think of men think of pigs

time to change our thoughts

we'd rather feature our sword

lead the path destroy our wrath

be a man take a stand and understand

we need her-- she needs him

we're the same limb to limb